Heinie Conklin
Heinie Conklin | |
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Born | Charles John Conklin July 16, 1886 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Died | July 30, 1959 Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 73)
Resting place | Chapel of the Pines Crematory |
Years active | 1915-1959 |
Spouse | Irene Blake (? - ?) (3 children) |
Heinie Conklin (July 16, 1886 – July 30, 1959) was an American actor whose career began in the silent film era, who appeared in nearly 400 films.
Biography
Claiming to be one of the original Keystone Kops, Conklin's silent screen makeup consisted of heavy eyebrow lining and a thinnish, upside-down, painted-on variation of Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache. He was born in San Francisco, California.
In areas where anti-German sentiments still ran high during the post-World War I era, Conklin was billed as Charlie Lynn. One of Conklin's first talking pictures was All Quiet on the Western Front as a hospital patient. For the rest of his career in talking pictures, he had small roles in 2-reelers which starred The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert and Harry Langdon. Conklin's last billed movie was Abbott and Costello meet the Keystone Kops. He died in Hollywood, California fifteen days after his seventy-third birthday.
Conklin's period at Keystone was contemporary with that of Chester Conklin, a more popular Keystone comedian who occasionally played lead roles in Keystone short films. The two Conklins were not related.
Partial filmography
- A Submarine Pirate (1915)
- A Small Town Idol (1921)
- The Day of Faith (1923)
- George Washington Jr. (1924)
- Seven Sinners (1925)
- The Clash of the Wolves (1925)
- The Sap (1926)
- The Man Upstairs (1926)
- The Night Cry (1926)
- The Fighting Edge (1926)
- Honesty – The Best Policy (1926)
- More Pay, Less Work (1926)
- Hard Boiled (1926)
- Drums of the Desert (1927)
- Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
- The Girl in the Pullman (1927)
- Feel My Pulse (1928)
- A Trick of Hearts (1928)
- Tiger Rose (1929)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Riders of Destiny (1933)
- The Big Idea (1934)
- Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
- Double Cross (1941)
- A Boy and His Dog (1946)
- Out West (1947)
- The Perils of Pauline (1947)
- Hold That Lion! (1947)
- The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
- Musty Musketeers (1954)